3rd row: Purl the long st.i.tch formed by making 2 in preceding row, *

make 2, purl 2 together, purl 3, purl 2 together, make 2, purl 3. Repeat from *. (By _make_ 2 is meant twist the cotton twice round the needle, which forms one long st.i.tch, and is knitted or purled as such in next row.)

4th row: Knit 3, * make 2, slip 1, knit 1, and pa.s.s the slipped st.i.tch over, knit 1, knit 2 together, make 2, knit 5. Repeat from *.

5th row: Purl 3, * make 2, purl 3 together, make 2, purl 7. Repeat from*.

6th row: Knit 3, * knit 2 together (1 st.i.tch and 1 long st.i.tch), make 2, knit 1, make 2, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slipped st.i.tch over (the knitted st.i.tch is a _long st.i.tch_), knit 5. Repeat from *.

Continue the pattern by repeating always from the 2nd to the 5th row; the 6th row is the repet.i.tion of the 2nd row, but it is begun (compare the two rows) about the middle of the 2nd row, so as to change the places of the thick diamonds in the following pattern. This will be easily understood in the course of the work.

_340.--Knitted Insertion._

Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s knitting cotton No. 20 or 30.

Cast on 14 st.i.tches, and knit in rows, backwards and forwards, as follows:--1st row: Slip 1, knit 2 together, throw cotton forward, knit 2, knit 2 together, throw cotton forward, knit 2, knit 2 together, throw cotton forward, knit 3. This row is repeated 18 times more; the st.i.tch formed by throwing the cotton forward is knitted as 1 st.i.tch.

20th row: Slip 1, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 1; place next 3 st.i.tches upon another needle behind the cotton, and leave them alone; knit 1, knit 2 together, throw cotton forward, now knit the first 2 of the 3 st.i.tches which have been left; knit the last of the 3 together with the next st.i.tch on the needle, throw cotton forward, knit 3. Repeat these 20 rows till strip is long enough.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 340.--Knitted Insertion.]

341 _and_ 342.--_Knitted Cover for Sofa Cushion._

Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s knitting cotton No. 12; eight ply fleecy wool.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 341.--St.i.tch for Sofa Cover.]

This cushion (15 inches wide, 12 inches high) is made of grey calico; it is covered on one side with knitting, worked with grey crochet cotton.

The knitted cover has an open-work pattern, worked backwards and forwards on a number of st.i.tches which can be divided by 2, and which must suit the width of the cushion, in the following manner:--1st row: Alternately throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together.

2nd row: Slip 1, knit the other st.i.tches. The st.i.tch formed by throwing the cotton forward is knitted as 1 st.i.tch.

3rd row: Knit 1, * throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together. Repeat from *; after the last decreasing knit 1.

4th row: Like the 2nd row.

These four rows are repeated till the cover is sufficiently large. Draw a narrow piece of red worsted braid through every other open-work row of the pattern, as can be seen in ill.u.s.tration 341. When the cushion has been covered with the knitting, it is edged all round with a border knitted the long way, in the above-mentioned open-work pattern; it is 14 rows wide, and also trimmed with worsted braid: a fringe of grey cotton and red wool, 3 1/4 inches wide, is sewn on underneath the border at the bottom of the cushion; to this is added a thick red worsted cord, by which the cushion is hung on over the back of an arm-chair. The cushion, on account of its simplicity, is especially suitable for garden chairs.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 342.--Sofa Cushion.]

343.--Netted Nightcap.

Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s crochet cotton No. 12.

This cap is netted with crochet cotton over a mesh measuring three-quarters of an inch round; work first a long square for the centre of the crown, cast on 28 st.i.tches, and work backwards and forwards 27 rows with the same number of st.i.tches. Then work 34 rounds round this square, and fasten the cotton. Then count 43 st.i.tches for the front border, and 24 st.i.tches for the back border, and leave them for the edge of the cap. On the remaining st.i.tches on each side work the strings in 95 rows backwards and forwards on the same number of st.i.tches; each string is pointed off at the lower end by decreasing 1 st.i.tch in every row. Sew in a narrow piece of tape in the back border of the cap; the remaining part of the border, as well as the strings, are trimmed with crochet lace or with netted edging, No. 311.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 343.--Netted Nightcap.]

344.--_Netted Nightcap_.

Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s knitting cotton, 3-thread, No.

30.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 344.--Netted Nightcap.]

This nightcap is very simple and practical. It consists of two similar three-cornered pieces, sewn together so as to form a double triangle; the point of the triangle is turned back, as seen in ill.u.s.tration, and fastened on the lower half of the same. The cap is edged with a lace; a similar lace covers the seam between both parts of the cap. The pattern is worked with crochet cotton over a mesh measuring three-quarters of an inch round. Begin each half in the corner; cast on 2 st.i.tches, and work backwards and forwards, increasing 1 st.i.tch at the end of every row, till the number of st.i.tches is 60. Then sew both halves together, and trim the cap and strings (the latter are worked as on the cap No. 343) with the following lace: work 2 rows of open-work treble st.i.tches--the treble st.i.tches are divided by 1 chain--then work 1 row of double, always working 4 double round the chain st.i.tches which divide 2 treble in the preceding row, or with netted edging No. 311.

345.--_Knitted Pattern_.

Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s knitting cotton No. 20 for couvrettes, or Berlin wool for sofa quilts.

This pattern can be worked either in wool or cotton, and is suitable for many purposes. Cast on a sufficient number of st.i.tches, divided by 18, for the 1st row: Knit 4, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward knit 2 together, knit 4, purl 6, repeat from *.

2nd row: The st.i.tches knitted in the 1st row are purled as well as the st.i.tches formed by throwing the cotton forward; the purled st.i.tches are knitted. This row is repeated alternately, therefore we shall not mention it again.

3rd row: * Knit 6, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, knit 6, purl 2.

5th row: Purl 4, * knit 4, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, knit 4, purl 6.

7th row: Knit 2, * purl 2, knit 6, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, knit 6.

9th row: Knit 2, * purl 6, knit 4, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, knit 4.

11th row: * Knit 6, purl 2, knit 6, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together.

13th row: Throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, * knit 4, purl 6, knit 4, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together.

15th row: * Throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, throw the cotton forward, knit 2 together, knit 6, purl 2, knit 6. The knitting can now be easily continued from ill.u.s.tration.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 345.--Knitted Pattern.]

346 _to_ 348.--Knitted Shawl.

Materials: Shetland wool, white and scarlet; steel needles.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 346.--Pattern for Shawl (348).]

[Ill.u.s.tration: 347.--Pattern for Shawl (348).]